This weekend, the Wisconsin State Fair turns its Main Stage over to country music. Here’s a look at the big acts performing for the grand stand Saturday and Sunday. Tickets for both shows are still available for sale at the Fair box office or online at wistatefair.com.

What We See When We Read. By Peter Mendelsund. Vintage. 448 pages. $16.95.

Peter Mendelsund's "What We See When We Read" may be the liveliest, most entertaining and best illustrated work of phenomenology you'll pick up this year.

An acclaimed book-jacket designer and art director, Mendelsund investigates, through words and pictures, what we see when we read text and where those images come from. | Aug. 8, 2014»Read Full Article

Before the Victorians reduced her to a dainty damsel in distress, Maid Marian was among the feistier members of Robin Hood's band of outlaws, giving as good as she gets with a sword.

That's what she's doing when we first meet her in local playwright Liz Shipe's "A Lady in Waiting," a world premiere production by Theater RED that got off to a rollicking start Thursday night under Christopher Elst's direction. | Aug. 8, 2014»Read Full Article

The relationship between art and Milwaukee's future seems to be busily being mapped out just now. How can artists participate in urban planning? What is placemaking? How is public art evolving today? What is socially-engaged art?

These territories are being redrawn by artists, academics, activists, business leaders and elected officials. A lot of this is playing out this summer, as several long-in-the-works placemaking projects are coming to fruition. | Aug. 8, 2014»Read Full Article

The Best of Brew City is your mobile guide to going out in Milwaukee. Locate events, live music, bars and restaurants near you and in Milwaukee's most popular neighborhoods. Visitbestofbrewcity.com and download the app for iOS or Android today.

It's a walk, and a run, in the park: The 15th annual Hank Aaron State Trail 5K Run/Walk steps off at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, just south of the Klement's Sausage Haus in the eastern parking lots at Miller Park near W. Canal St. Run-day registration is $35, $20 for kids 12 and younger. | Aug. 8, 2014»Read Full Article

The National Weather Service has not issued any special weather alerts for movie theaters showing "Into the Storm," but if it had, dangers might include rapidly decreasing green-screen visibility and high winds capable of producing gusts of stupid dialogue.

Ticket-buyers for either the 7 p.m. Dec. 30 show or the 10:30 p.m. Dec. 31 show can also add an autographed copy of Gaffigan's upcoming book of comic essays, "Food: A Love Story," to their order. Only the first 200 people making this purchase are guaranteed a signed book. | Aug. 8, 2014»Read Full Article(2)